Paper Rex vs Team Vitality Result VALORANT Masters London 2026

Paper Rex defeated Team Vitality 2-1 in VALORANT Masters London 2026 Upper Semifinals at the Copper Box Arena in London on June 15, their series lasting 2 hours and 53 minutes. VIT picked Breeze, PRX picked Split and Fracture was the decider. Paper Rex advance to the Upper Final where they face EDward Gaming. Team Vitality drop to Lower Round 2 where they face FUT Esports. The series started as a complete stomp from PRX, turned into a response from Vitality, and finished with Paper Rex taking control again on the decider, the three-act competitive arc whose resolution confirmed PRX's system quality extends to the highest pressure that an upper bracket semifinal against the EMEA champions produces.

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Match result

Breeze was Vitality's map pick and the series opened with PRX producing one of their most dominant individual map performances of the tournament. Paper Rex completely dictated the tempo and economy across both halves, their attacking and defensive compositions giving Vitality none of the structural footholds that Chronicle and Sayf's KAST system requires to generate the defensive resilience that Vitality's best maps produce. PRX's 30 first kills to Vitality's 24 across the series was most pronounced on Breeze where their first-contact structural advantage gave their system the round-start economic and positional conditions whose consistent delivery produced the dominant map result that gave PRX the early series lead.

Split gave Vitality their response. PRX picked Split and Vitality showed the individual depth whose activation on a map whose attacking timings suit Derke's individual ceiling gave the EMEA champions the competitive platform whose second map activation confirmed their system could produce results in this series when their preparation for PRX's compositions found the specific competitive expression their coaching staff had built across their pre-match preparation window. Vitality's 2 thrifty round wins to PRX's 0 across the series were concentrated on Split, their economic resourcefulness on their response map confirming the individual quality whose competition-window ceiling makes them the most dangerous lower bracket team in the field entering Lower Round 2.

Fracture was the decider and PRX reasserted the dominance that their Breeze performance had established. Paper Rex took control and never relinquished the map's competitive direction across either half, their Fracture preparation giving their system the structural advantages whose consistent delivery closed the map and series in their favour. PRX's post plant success of 10 from 14 across the series, compared to Vitality's 14 from 23, reflected a team whose bomb site conversion efficiency was more reliable across the series' most consequential rounds whose execution determined the competitive outcomes that decided which team reached the Upper Final.

Top performers

Jinggg was the series standout with 248 ACS, a 49-37-12 KDA, 75.9% KAST and 163 ADR, his 11 first kills against 6 first deaths confirming the primary duelist performance whose consistent activation across all three maps gave PRX the individual scoring platform that their 2-1 series win required. d4v41 supported with 220 ACS and a 47-36-7 KDA across the series, his 5-2 first kill to first death ratio the most efficient individual first-contact figure of any player in the series and the specific defensive and attacking contribution whose competition-window achievement gave PRX the secondary individual ceiling that Vitality's coaching staff could not specifically neutralise alongside Jinggg's primary scoring output. something posted 206 ACS and 8 first kills, f0rsakeN 205 ACS with 23 assists confirming his playmaking contribution to the PRX system, and invy 197 ACS completing the five-player distributed scoring depth whose competition-window achievement across all three maps gave PRX the collective individual quality that the Vitality series required.

Was EsportScanner AI correct?

EsportScanner free AI Valorant predictions gave PRX 64% win probability entering this match based on their five-match winning run and invy's 254 ACS Leviatán series ceiling. The prediction landed. PRX won 2-1 with Jinggg's 248 ACS series-leading performance and their Fracture decider control proving the decisive factors.

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